Ready or (mostly) not, the Rio Games begin
Security is swarming, the venues are iffy and the opening ceremony will be a low budget affair. Tolerance is the watch-word.
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opening ceremonies
All aboard Team GB
From athletes and fans to politicians and young royals, the Games united a nation
Sir Steve Redgrave and Mike Spracklen: A river runs through them
Lads from Marlow connected by Olympic dreams and past glories
A pub’s-eye view of the Opening Ceremonies
What better place to tap the British soul on the eve of the Opening Ceremonies?
Go easy on the gesamtkunstwerk
Trust the Germans to have precisely the word for the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
What a difference a day makes, eh, wot?
So, finally, it’s the opening morning of the XXX Summer Games. (Warning: don’t type that into your search engine)
Three hours, $41M, 10,000 volunteers and countless rumours about the Opening Ceremonies
Official kickoff of the 2012 Olympics fuels no end of speculation
Quite an introduction
Between the sometimes-luminous opening ceremonies and the corny clichés of the closing show, Canada presented versions of itself the world had never seen
Top 10 worst moments at the Vancouver Olympic Games
Rod Black, Melissa Hollingsworth and plenty of figure skaters make the list
You are in Candahar
It’s a bar, an art exhibit, the star of the other Olympiad in Vancouver